Walking Dead comic book fans would have probably been proud of Negan's original appearance in the season six finale.

The Hollywood Reporter has revealed that the uncensored 11-minute monologue, which will appear on the Blu-ray release, contains a whopping TWENTY THREE uses of the word f**k, including several colourful variations.

Across the other uses of the very naughty word, the broadcast version aired by AMC either avoided the language completely or substituted it for a safer word.

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One such line is taken directly from Robert Kirkman's comic book series, the infamous "I am gonna beat the holy f**k f**king f**kety f**k out of one of you". Due to broadcast restrictions, this ended up being, "I'm gonna beat the holy hell out of one of you."

By all accounts, Jeffrey Dean Morgan gives good potty mouth too if executive producer Greg Nicotero is to be believed.

"Even when I did my director's cut, I put the f-bomb into the director's cut for all the executive producers to see because it's so powerful. It's the momentum of using those words to accentuate and punctuate those moments," he enthused.

As to who might have been at the end of Negan's brutal beating, we're still no closer to finding out, although this teaser clip might have given us our best hint yet. If it turns out to be true though, we riot.

The Walking Dead will return to AMC on October 23, with FOX UK following 24 hours later.